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UM AL MARADIM

The Um Al Maradim is a French built, Kuwaiti Um Al Maradim Class missile attack craft. The attack craft are armed with two twin launchers for the Matra BAe Dynamics Sea Skua surface to surface missiles, mounted on the aft deck. The craft can be fitted with the Simbad twin missile launcher supplied by Matra BAe Dynamics, which fires the Mistral surface to air missile. The Simbad launcher is installed on the weapon deck to the stern of the radar mast. The vessel's main gun, the Otobreda 40 mm gun, is installed on the bow deck. The Giat type M621 20 mm gun is mounted at the stern and there are also two 12.7 mm general purpose machine-guns. The fast attack craft uses a steel hull construction and the full load displacement is 245 tons. The craft is operated by a crew of 24. The propulsion system is based on two MTU 2.94 MW diesel engines with two water jet systems. The patrol boat is capable of a maximum speed of 30 knots. At an economical speed of 15 knots, the range is over 1, 300 miles.
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